Dick Estel was a GEOS fanatic and lover of all things Font related. He created his Font Resource Directory so others could get the benefit of his obsession. I doubt there is anyone else with the GEOS Font knowledge that Dick has.

Dick began printing his GEOS fonts in 1989 and, while he tried to discontinue the FRD at numerous times, more fonts kept on coming. Supplement 14 declared it was The Final Supplement taking the FRD to Page 516. While none of the Fontastic Newsletters are dated, I know that there was at least one more update.

Although I don't have a Fontastic #15 Newsletter the final envelope I have from Dick is postmarked June 11, 1996. My FRD binder goes to Page S-520 with Pilaga, Darleen, Supra Pilaga, Supra Darleen, and Urubu being the final fonts. These fonts do not appear in the alphabetized index.

Versions of the included PDF's appear on the geoSpecific GEOS PD/Shareware CD that is available on the lyonlabs GEOS site.

I have recently re-scanned the FontMania! columns and the Fontastic Newsletters as the original scans were poorly done - perhaps reduced to keep the CD size down.

One day I may rescan the entire FRD collection but for now it does present all the fonts in readable format.

Nov 2024
Bruce Thomas

Thank you Bruce for this amazing collection of PDF's highlighting Dick Estel's work to organize and publish the innumerable GEOS fonts available.  I've included some screenshots of just a few of the PDF's in this archive, there is so much content, you'll need to download and examine for yourself.